Yes thats how I remember it ,incidentally I became very familiar with the gearbox removal on that car over those Summer meetings,some weekends I was doing two gear box changes a race weekend ,then having to rebuild them both over the next week in readiness for the following weekend,NZIGP meeting I changed them between heats and remember we just dropped it down off the stands in time to join the cars as they were driving out of pit gateOriginally Posted by Ian.Maskell
Last edited by bob homewood; 11-06-2011 at 04:23 AM.
Give me a clue please how to post photos please - bit of a techno clutz
There is a thread up top with how to post photos.
Flick me an email if you get stuck Ian.
Neat photo Les. Was this car BDA powered?
It was 1600 crossflow with BDA bottom end
Along the way later in its life I raced this car with my 1850cc 416b based twin cam engine in its L/H drive format,then the bones of the body shell ended up clothing my present space frame Escort
Halliday ShellSport Escort, at, I think, Manfeild. Photo taken by Warwick Clayton.
The Halliday Escort pictured is the ex Kevin Ryan OSCA Championship winning car. Kevin purchased the car as a roller from the UK and fitted it with a 1600cc BDA to run in OSCA. He sold the car to the Hallidays when he purchased Big Bertha from Reg Cook. Prior to Kevin's purchase the car had a very successful UK competition history as a Twin Cam.
Again this is another car that I would like to know the whereabouts of.
After Hallidays it went on to Ken Hobern ,some time ago he still had it ,Grimmy might know
I never knew that. Do we know who the successful pom driver was?
Owned since late 80s and still occassionally run by .... Don McIntyre (father on John - Johnny Mac) in HB. Still running BDA and quick.Halliday ShellSport Escort, at, I think, Manfeild. Photo taken by Warwick Clayton.
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The Marsh Datsun Coupe was a weapon - where is it now?
[QUOTE=Carlo;7118]The Halliday Escort pictured is the ex Kevin Ryan OSCA Championship winning car. Kevin purchased the car as a roller from the UK and fitted it with a 1600cc BDA to run in OSCA. He sold the car to the Hallidays when he purchased Big Bertha from Reg Cook. Prior to Kevin's purchase the car had a very successful UK competition history as a Twin Cam.
Warren Steel brought it from Kevin, we fitted a Twin Cam sourced from Aussie, ran it for awhile, from memory had alot of issues with the gearbox and sold it to the Hallidays
Thanks Les, I couldn't remember the order of who was first after KJP, Steelo or The Days.
Dave Mck I will post the previous history of the car when we get back home in a few weeks time, need to check a couple of things with Kevin first.
Just received a copy of information resulting from the Shellsport Motoracing NZ Inaugural Meeting which was held last November and they contain the draft regulations for this class of vehicle to run as a category at future race meetings. The cover genuine existing vehicles, replicas, and any new car yet to be built.
The cut off date for elegible vehicles is 31-12-1983 and of course the maximum engine capacity remains at 2 litres with class breaks at 1300 & 1600cc
A copy of the regulations are available from The Secretary PO Box 16245 Hornby Christchurch 8441
Hi Carlo, Any info on who was present and the cars that might be around to contest this series ? There seems to be quite a collection of them out there looking for somewhere to race.
So that would be this car when Mark was at Puke.
We missed the meeting which was held at Timaru as were overseas at the time. The Chairman / co-ordinator is John Gobbe who was the MANZ Technical Officer of the period and a great supporter of the class and who now owns quitea number of cars tha trtaced during those times. The Secretary is Dot Box with Richard Box and Rod Collingwood looking after Technical & Regs. While I have not yet had time to go through the regs and run them past the regs of the period it appears as though they are very close to the version used in the final years of the championship, eg cars with set back firewalls could continue to run but no new cars or reshells could be built in this configuration. Submissions to the proposed regs close on the 8th of February
At present it looks as though there are sufficent cars around to run them as a stand alone class at S.I. Classic race meetings, time will tell if that is to happen, I guess we wil lall know a lot more after the S.I. classic race series in Febuary
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